LABOUR COMMENT De Valera On Arrival Of United States Troops In The Six Counties (Irish Press, 28.1.1942) The Yanks Arrive! EVERYBODY knew…. that Ireland had twenty years ago been partitioned and the Six Counties being cut off from the rest of the country by an Act of the British Parliament, despite the expressed will of the … Continue reading The Yanks Arrive!
Irish History
Two magazines, Irish Foreign Affairs and Church & State can be read in PDF form by clicking on the links top right.
The Framing Of Roger Casement: Typescripts Versus Handwritten Diaries
About a month after Roger Casement’s arrest in April 1916, extracts of diaries purporting to be composed by Roger Casement were circulated. Two key people were involved in this campaign: Reginald Hall, the head of Naval Intelligence; and Basil Thomson, the Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Head of the CID. There is some … Continue reading The Framing Of Roger Casement: Typescripts Versus Handwritten Diaries
The Casement Diaries: Fake Truth – The Case Of Mr. Germain
On 23rd July 1959 British Home Secretary R.A. Butler made an important announcement to the House of Commons concerning the controversy about the obscene diaries attributed to Roger Casement. Besides admitting their existence for the first time, Butler briefly described the diaries and commented on how and when they had come into police possession. He … Continue reading The Casement Diaries: Fake Truth – The Case Of Mr. Germain
A Side-Issue In The Casement Story: McCormick And Grayson
In last month’s Irish Political Review I focused on the career of J. Arthur Maundy Gregory, who became famous by selling more knighthoods and other titles of honour than anyone else in Great Britain. Previous to that, he was probably involved—under the direction of Basil Thomson, head of Scotland Yard—in forging the 'Black Diaries' attributed to Roger Casement. I set out below … Continue reading A Side-Issue In The Casement Story: McCormick And Grayson
Census And Common Sense
With great fanfare, we now know what was in the 1926 Census but, like many censuses, we don’t know what’s not in it! That is a known unknown, and of course that will always be so, but it’s useful to realise that it is not the full picture. All censuses take place in a political … Continue reading Census And Common Sense
The Journalistic Standards Of The Irish Times
The Irish Times revealed in a report by Colin Keena something that was obvious to anyone who has followed the endless deliberations of the Moriarty Tribunal [October 1997 to March 2011]—that the Tribunal's star witness, Kevin Phelan, was not only a convicted fraudster, but also a blackmailer. Keena's report (The Irish Times, 15.6.27) describes a meeting … Continue reading The Journalistic Standards Of The Irish Times
Concerning the Black Diaries
The book, “Anatomy of Lie – Decoding Casement” by Paul R. Hyde published in 2019 creates a new paradigm for assessing the infamous case of the alleged Black Diaries of Roger Casement; it establishes the case that there is no verifiable evidence that these diaries existed in 1916 before Casement’s execution. Hyde makes a convincing … Continue reading Concerning the Black Diaries
The Brian P. Murphy OSB Archive. (Series 9)
The Evolution Of British Policy And The Emergence Of A Sinn Fein Publicity Department In The Years After The Easter Rising. Mss notes, Part 29 The Hunger Strike And Its Aftermath The Hunger Strike—which lasted from 5th to 14th April—proceeded in tandem with the MacCurtain inquest. While [Frank] Gallagher wrote encouraging letters to his fiancée, … Continue reading The Brian P. Murphy OSB Archive. (Series 9)
Labour Comment
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ James Connolly Our Policy The Workers’ Republic, 29 May 1915 ON the appearance of our first number in such a time of tension and excitement, our readers, we are sure, expect some sort of declaration of policy. This we hasten to give. The policy of this paper will be to implant in the … Continue reading Labour Comment
